Jesus: The Son of Man - Kahlil Gibran


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Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and visual artist, who left "an artistic legacy to people of all nations." He is most famous for The Prophet (1923), one of the best-selling and most-translated books ever written.
Gibran's work deals with a variety of philosophical themes, including: justice, science, free will, love, the soul, happiness, and death; and his style is infused with a "neo-Romantic" sense of symbolism and melancholy. He was deeply influenced by William Blake, whom Gibran called "the God-man," and whose poetry he deemed "the profoundest things done in English." However, in Jesus: The Son of Man (1928), the "Master Poet" is Jesus himself.
In this poetic re-telling of the Gospel, Gibran presents a different perspective (77 different perspectives, in fact) on Jesus Christ. Told through the words of Jesus' contemporaries--family, disciples, and enemies alike, including familiar Biblical characters such as Mary Magdalene, Peter, and James--he paints a kaleidoscopic picture of the life of Jesus Christ. Rather than a conventional biography, however, the book is an imaginative reinterpretation of the essence and spirit of Jesus' teachings, and a critique of religious institutions and dogmas that may have distorted his message.
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Jesus: The Son of Man - Kahlil Gibran